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Nackt, geplündert und verlassen. Der Leichnam des Herrschers zwischen jus spolii, Karneval und „Zwei-Körper-Theorie“
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Bojcov M. A.
Often in the Middle Ages corpse of a dead ruler became centre of intesive ritual activity. One of its specific forms was plundering of the dead body or/and exhibiting it naked without any sort of insignia. The author disputes with explanations of this custom proposed in academaic publications of the last decades and demonstrates new cases, concerning secular rulers, mainly kings of England.
Boltunova E., Новая и новейшая история 2026 Vol. 70 No. 1 P. 17–28
This article examines the ceremonial practices surrounding the burial and commemoration of Emperor Alexander I and their role in articulating hierarchical representations of imperial space. Alexander I died in November 1825 in Taganrog, more than one thousand miles from Saint Petersburg, and the transfer of his body to the imperial capital took several months. The funeral cortege travelled through ...
Added: January 10, 2026
Petrova T., Laboratorium. Журнал социальных исследований 2025 Т. 17 № 2 С. 56–81
Nikita Khrushchev was the first Soviet leader, who practiced visits around the country as a scenario of power. During his seven years as the leader of the party and the government, he made several dozen tours of the regions and republics of the USSR, within which he checked the work of local authorities and communicated ...
Added: October 21, 2025
Королева М. В., В кн.: На пути к государствам нового времени: Запад и Восток Европы в конце XV - XVII веке.: М., Калуга: Калужский государственный институт развития образования, 2020. С. 344–368.
The article studies the use of the oath in Russia in the 17th century. Firstly, it was used as a means of consolidation and legitimization of power in the struggle of various political forces. Secondly, the oath was a guarantee that the offi cial duties in relation to the sovereign were thoroughly performed. Thirdly, it was used ...
Added: January 24, 2024
Alexeeva T. A., М.: , 2021.
The book is devoted to the history of the formation of the constitutional institution of the head of state in Spain (XIX-XX centuries). It is based on an analysis of more than 250 legal acts and demonstrates the contribution of Spanish law to the history of constitutionalism by the formation of the concept, form and content of ...
Added: July 11, 2021
Boytsov M., , in: Princely Funerals in Europe, 1400-1700. Commemoration, Diplomacy, and Political Propaganda.: Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2021. Ch. 5 P. 107–122.
In numerous German principalities (just as in other parts of medieval Europe) the funeral ceremonies proper were often anticipated by more or less specific rituals of death, performed by the court, as well as by the dying prince himself. The chapter delivers a vivid look into diverse funeral customs at the prominent German courts ...
Added: December 2, 2020
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2021.
Panorama of royal and princely ceremonial, their evolution from the end of the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century and their diffusion throughout the Courts of Europe.
Funerals were among the most extravagant princely ceremonies in Europe. At the end of the Middle Ages, they were grandiose affairs, carefully recorded, bringing together the emotions of both ...
Added: December 2, 2020
Bojcov M. A., , in: La mort du roi: réalité, littérature, représentation / Der Tod des Königs: Realität, Literatur, Repräsentation.: Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2021. Ch. 5 P. 71–102.
Added: December 2, 2020
Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2021.
The death of the king was always one of the most significant events in the history of a kingship and power. It gave the impetus to diverse symbolic representations, to the producing of rich literature and extensive iconography. This volume brings together a series of studies dealing with historical, iconographic and literary aspects of the ...
Added: December 2, 2020
Marey A.V., , in: The Evolution of Social Institutions: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.: Springer, 2020. Ch. 13 P. 293–309.
The author discusses the royal power theory as it was developed and accepted in the Castilian Kingdom of the mid-thirteenth–early fourteenth centuries. The central figure of the chapter is the king of Castile and Leon Alfonso X the Wise (1252–1284). Claiming his rights not only to the throne of Castile but also to the Holy ...
Added: October 31, 2020
Stefanovich P., В кн.: Русь, Россия: Средневековье и Новое времяВып. 6: Шестые чтения памяти академика РАН Л.В. Милова. Материалы к международной научной конференции. Москва, 21–22 ноября 2019 г.: М.: Исторический факультет МГУ, 2019. С. 91–95.
The author studies the origins and meaning of three elements which constituted an official address of nobles to the ruler in Russia in the 16-17th centuries: the title gosudar’, self-definition holop and the ritual of chelobit’e (“beating the head”). He concludes that all of them formed on the base of Old-Russian traditions, though influenced by ...
Added: November 3, 2019
Першин Я. В., Идеи и идеалы 2016 Т. 2 № 2 (28) С. 52–61
The article analyses the text of the mystical «Revelations» of st. Birgitta and references to her “Revelations” in diplomatic correspondence during Hundred Years’ War. In this text she calls on those warring parties for laying their arms down in the name of Jesus. The focus is on the argument in favor of the authenticity of ...
Added: October 10, 2019
Aleksandrova M., В кн.: Феномен унификации в истории.: М.: ИВИ РАН, 2019. С. 125–139.
В статье предпринята попытка реконструировать принципы документооборота при заключении сделок по займам между английской короной и иностранными купцами на антверпенской бирже в середине XVI в. и взглянуть через призму мельчайших деталей процедуры обмена долговыми обязательствами на характер отношений между королевской властью и международным купеческим сообществом, базировавшимся за пределами Англии. В результате выявляется дисциплинирующее влияние антверпенского рынка ...
Added: August 6, 2019
Гасан Гусейнов, Археология русской смерти. Death studies journal 2017 Т. 1 № 4 С. 29–37
Official and non.official social discourse of the death in the Soviet Union. ...
Added: November 1, 2018
Федонников Н. А., Vox Medii Aevi 2017 № 1 С. 90–105
This article is devoted to investigation of the burial places of Merovingian kings. The aim of this research was to estimate the certain places of Merovingian burials, the purposes for their selection and sacred links between kings and these places. Burial places demonstrated that kings were under the patronage of a saints and expressed the ...
Added: December 14, 2017
Marey A. V., Казус. Индивидуальное и уникальное в истории 2017 Т. 12 С. 145–168
Within this article the author analyses one episode from so-called “*Historia dialogada hasta 1288”, the anonymous Castilian chronic edited near the end of 13th or the first years of the 14th century. During the siege of an Andalusian town Niebla the troops of Alphonse X the Wise were attacked by a horde of the flies, ...
Added: April 15, 2017